Sino-Russian Relations

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Russia and China have had many different types of relationships over the years. They are two of the largest states in population and land mass. These two states also share large borders. The two states have problematic pasts with the United States and both have a somewhat precarious relations with the U.S. currently. Russia and China’s cooperation together is beneficial to both states, although having an alliance together can pose a risk to the current status quo of international relations in Asia and the world. China and Russia will continue to work together to both achieve a major power status in Asia. From a realist’s point of view on the matter, China and Russia cooperate only for their own personal gains that will suit them. Often…show more content…

The Chinese still feel ambiguous about this loss of land and many nationalist and academic in China refer to it as, “lost one-and-a-half million square kilometers.” (Harkins, 2010) These actions have had an effect on the relations of the two countries up to the 1960’s where there were clashes on the border along the Amur and Ussuri’s river banks in the RFE. There are many small islands in between the banks of these rivers that Russia and China feuded over. In 1969 there was one confrontation Ussuri River that led to 31 Russian fatalities (Harkins, 2010). In the 1980’s things in the region started to cool down and both nations looked into having peaceful talks about the border. “In 1986, during a speech in Vladivostok, Gorbachev publicly proposed a new bilateral agreement moving the China-RFE border to the middle of the channel in the Amur River.” (Harkins, 2010) This act by the Russians resolved the major border conflict and made the relations between the two nations more favorable. These peaceful solutions have put an end to the unpleasant attitude towards their 4,300 km border. Although there was much discontent between the two nations when Russia was the Soviet Union and before that. The Soviet Union had militarized it’s borders along China and much of the far east because of their then tricky…

I. Introduction
The history of Sino-Soviet relations can be traced back hundreds of years, starting with the initial Mongol invasion and devastation of the Kievan Rus’ principalities in the mid-thirteenth century. With time, the rise of the Russian Empire and Czarist rule reversed the infrastructural and cultural destruction caused by the Mongol hordes; by the advent of the twentieth century, the reformed Russian state had begun encroaching on Chinese territory while holding a very strong, influential…

Sino-American Relations
I. Introduction
The American President Nixon's historic trip to China in February 1972 marked the beginning of a new era in Sino-American relations. For the first time since 1949, the two countries established high-level official contacts and transformed their relationship from confrontation to collaboration. Over the following twenty years, however, U.S.-China relations have experienced repeated cycles of progress, stalemate, and crisis, with the events in Tiananmen…

US and Russia relations after the defeat of the USSR:
The end of Cold War brought new challenges to Russian life, economy and
politics. Actually, the post-Cold War period opened the new opportunities for
Russia. Democracy made its first steps in the country. After seventy years of
communism Russian people finally got a chance to live how the want, to say what
they want and to do what they want. People got a chance to choose their own
leader, to vote for the Congress members. And it was very confusing…

Sino-Soviet Split
Thesis: The reasons for the Sino Soviet split can be placed upon the political, economic and social difference between the nations; especially the ideological differences.
Political
Long Term
* Stalin feared Mao as a rival for the leadership of the communist world
* Didn’t want the Cold War to spread to Asia
* Stalin underestimated the CCP
* Believed the GMD would be stronger,
* Wanted the communists to unite
* Even when the victory…

Group A-Question 2: Discuss the significance of the Sino-Soviet confrontation of 1960s–1980s for the Cold War dynamics in the Asia-Pacific.
The Sino-Soviet confrontation of the 1960’s-1980’s had a significant impact on the Cold War dynamics of the Asia-Pacific through a number of factors. This period was a significant time of the twentieth century. The two largest communist states of the world, the PRC (Peoples Republic of China), led by Mao Zedong and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)…

only natural for him to annex large parts of the Xianjing territory. These actions would not have been possible if the Chinese did not experience internal conflicts at the time.
The Macartney-Macdonald line proposed an interesting solution to the Russian problem, but it was difficult and almost impossible for it to come into effect as both the British and the Chinese were hesitant about supporting it.
2. The British expanded westward and further delineated borderlines with China and made it possible…

Causes and Elevation of the Sino-Soviet Schism
It can be argued that the most significant effect on foreign policy during the Cold
War, besides the arms race, was the schism and eventually antagonism between the USSR
and China. Some historians have argued that the schism between the USSR continued to
elevate throughout the Cold War. Alvin Z. Rubenstien, in his book "Soviet Foreign Policy
Since World War II" makes the argument that "The Sino-Soviet rift is more complex
today [Rubenstien…

The Second Sino-Japanese War (formerly addressed as the “China Incident”) took place in China from 1937 until 1945. In this war, the Japanese sought out China’s abundance of raw materials and land. The two forces, China and Japan, battled over the control of said materials and most importantly, land. Before this, China was mainly concerned with the civil war (which was on and off until 1950, years after the Second Sino-Japanese war) between nationalists (Kuomintang party lead by Chiang Kai-Shek)…

The Sino-American Relationship
The main focus of this paper is to analyze the Sino-American relationship and the factors both past and present that make it a complicated and very important issue, as well as future expectations for the development of continued relations. American contact with China in the past has been less than positive and China is a country that values respect and honesty in its value system. China and the USA do not share the same view of the world. There has been much…

International Relations of Asia
STRATEGIC GEOMETRY
"This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and
permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three-
power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities
and variations."
introduction
The concept of strategic geometry comprises the notion that that the
interactions and interconnections between a number of political actors within a
particular system…